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FUKUSHIMA. Kyusaku. - Major General. Statement of Ito - 6 January 1947 (420) Asst. Chief of Staff from March to 30 Nov. 1946. Fukuahima would have seen the Tokyo report concerning the 20 June execution with its Fukuoka air raid alibi. Ito heard from Murata after the war that Fukuahima and others were very excited about the remains of the 16 flyers reported killed in the 19 June raid. After the war, Fukushima told Ito that aside from those 16 prisoners, 9 or 10 were sent to Hiroshima in late July and killed by the atomic bomb. Ito believes also that Fukushima stated that the remainder were turned over to a member of the Special Attack Corps of the Japanese Air Force who came from Tokyo after the prisoners. Fukushima said that they would report this to Tokyo to cover up the atrocities of the Western Army. Sato and Fukushima said that Inada had stated that the atom bomb alibi might be accepted, but that he objected to the part of turning over the prisoners to a member of the Special Attack Corps. Fukushima, Sato, Inada and possibly Akita, disagreed with Fukushima and Sato on the Air Corps Attack Force phase. There was also disagreement of Fukuahima, Sato, Tomornori and Inada as to Inada's desire to report that flyers were killed unavoidably at the Western Army Hqs. Fukushima was sent by Inada to Hiroshima to tie up the atom bomb alibi. Then he was to report that the remaining prisoners had been sent to Tokyo by air in a place piloted by a member of the Special Attack Force. |
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Statement of Murata - 26 Jan 1947 (420) Sato told Ito, Tomomori and Murata that he had recovered in Tokyo the War Department report concerning the 16 flyers purported to have been killed in the 20 August air raid. |
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Statement of Itezona - 6 January 1947 (420) The 16 August conference concerning the execution was attended by Fukushima. On the same day Fukushima came to watch Itezona and two NCOs burn the possessions of the flyers, on two different occasions. Fukushima told Itezona to dispose of items of American planes lying around the Hqs. In Feb. 1946, Inada told Itezona that Fukushima was doing all he could to cover up the executions. Itezona believes that Fukushima knew of the executions at the time of their perpetration. Fukushima was a direct superior of Sato, who was in charge of the flyers. |
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Suzuki report - 26 April 1947 (420) Sato, as to the 12 Aug. execution, told Itezona to obtain the sanction of Fukushima, but he did not doso. On 15 August Sato went to Fukushima and told him that he wanted to dispose of the prisoners. Fukushima claims he said it was out of the question with the war ended and that there were other methods than killing the prisoners. Sato, however, claims that Fukushima said "all right”. |
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Interrogation of Oki - May 1942 Fukushima responsible for the 15 August execution. |